A big part of the problem is that NOBODY has put forward realistic proposals to reduce medical spending. Medicare alone is going to devour the federal budget by the mid-2020’s. Something has to break here - either medical costs will have to go down, or the Medicare program will have to be cut way back.
This is easy—if everyone had to pay for their own Medical insurance and/or care (no government subsidy or payment allowed) those costs would go _way_ down in a hurry.
No politician would touch this proposal with a ten foot pole—so it looks like a planet destroying asteroid strike is the only way this issue will be addressed. :-(
>>> big part of the problem is that NOBODY has put forward realistic proposals to reduce medical spending. Medicare alone is going to devour the federal budget by the mid-2020’s.
How about this? Instead of continually raising the Medicare elegibility age, which takes out tbe cheaper to serve population, we start working back from say 90, cutting off benefits to the most expensive population. Won’t be popular but might save some money.